Palaces near Sukhma near Agudzera plundered by natives.
In 1895, an amazing person Nikolai Nikolaevich Smetskoy, the creator of the green Tretyakov Gallery of Abkhazia, bought an estate of two thousand acres in Gulripsh, which is behind Sukhum on a mountain near Agudzera. Here, on an area of .75 hectares, it breaks a beautiful subtropical park - unique in beauty, with a central alley of date palms. In 1900, he decides to build a palace in Gulripsh for his wife, who is ill with tuberculosis. In those years, the disease was considered incurable, but the doctors recommended that he change the sunny rooms so that there were no pathogenic bacteria. 365 smartly equipped rooms, every day of the year she met in a new room and managed to defeat the disease, they say she lived up to 80 years.... In 1902, at an altitude of 120 meters above sea level, the White Palace was opened. A cork oak from the Mediterranean was planted around the building, with a thick layer of cork and a peculiar slope of the trunks. There was also a subsidiary farm - an orchard, a vineyard, planting citrus fruits. The Red Building in Gulripsh was built in 1913. Both four-story, original architecture buildings do not interfere with each other and the facades are facing the sea. An electric station, water supply, sewerage were built. Later, the scoops PRIVATIZED ALIEN by arranging a public in the palaces. . . sanatorium. Later, according to the definition of one of the members of the commission examining the sanatorium, this is a "real palace of hygiene. " And then, at the beginning of the century, Smetskoy continued to expand and improve the surrounding park, where trees from all over the world now grew and blossomed. There are bluish-blue coconuts from America with bright orange fruits; in front of the buildings of the sanatorium, the most ancient plants of the globe are planted - cycos, as well as American agaves, blooming once in a lifetime; near the Red building along the slopes grows blackwood acacia. There were plantations of tangerine trees, which the scoops took away from the owner, arranging, according to the tradition, the "Sovkhoz Ilyich" (this is the name of the minibus stop near Agudzera, which is beyond Sukhum if you are planning to go there on your own. And there are no tours-excursions to the palaces. tangerine state farm LAZINESS and irresponsibility lack of culture and lack of control reign in this impoverished country today.
